With violence soaring, Mexico looks for help from its army

The recent violence in Mexico, much of it drug-[market]-related, is showing no signs of letting up. (Photo courtesy LA Times)

By Sara Miller Llana | Christian Science Monitor MEXICO CITY — Even for Mexicans accustomed to ghastly headlines chronicling the country’s drug-related violence, the current level of killing in Tijuana causes consternation. Some 200 people have been slain in one month. Last weekend turned into one of the city’s deadliest: Nearly 40 were killed, four of whom were children, and nine of them beheaded.

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3 decapitated bodies found near Tijuana

[another] Day of the Dead (Photo courtesy Xine at http://www.chicken-scratch.ca/)

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – Three decapitated bodies were found Tuesday in an empty lot on the eastern outskirts of Tijuana, the Mexican attorney general’s office said. The killings were the latest in a wave of mostly drug-related violence that has swept Mexico, much of it near the U.S. border. Drug cartels have turned to decapitating their victims as a way to intimidate rivals.

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